Words to the Wise: A Lighthearted Look at the English Language by Michael Sheehan

Words to the Wise: A Lighthearted Look at the English Language

Michael Sheehan

240 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction medium-paced
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You?ve been dying to know: How did punctuation get started? (Monks did it.) Where did ?nerds? come from? (Dr. Seuss.) And what exactly is a checkered past? (A 14th-century French allusion to snowy white and shadowy black chessboard squares.) Langu...

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